Not in monteverde

Pumpkin farm, apple fritters, Indian food, pho, and Thai. And, grandma, Melinda and Jaal. It is coooold here for us, although quite nice weather.

Enjoying the beach and seeing a turtle laying eggs.

Tonight we went to Camaronal reserve and saw Oliver Ridley turtles being born and laying eggs. It was impressive. They lay over 80 eggs in a hole and then cover it up and return to the sea. Thirteen years later these turtles will return to the same beach to lay their own eggs. We also saw some babies that were dug up by a raccoon and eaten before they were quite done developing, and other babies just coming out of the sand.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YV1ZG2nQSqs
For a video of the reserve

Address for books

Hello!
I forgot to add the address to send the books. It should show up in the wish list, but in case not, here it is:

Rebecca Goertzel
5121 S Mead St.
Seattle, WA 98118

Liana and I are going back next week to visit Jaal and friends and family in Seattle. My mom and dad will be flying out as well. Tony is staying put as he will fly to Seattle in December for a ten year band anniversary show.

This week we are at Samara beach, with Amy and Virgilio. Yesterday Liana floated down an estuary on a boogie board, scared crabs into their holes, swam in the waves, dug in the sand, played in a beach river and practiced real swimming in the pool.

Rebecca

Enjoying our blog? Send some books to the school

Hello Friends and Family, 

If you have been enjoying our blog, you too can participate in our experience by buying some books for the school. 

Liana and I will be in Seattle and we can bring books back with us. I made an Amazon wishlist with requests. It is below. 

In order to get the books in time for me to bring them back this time, they would have to be ordered very soon. 

They need at least five copies of each book, so it would be more helpful to buy five of the same book than five different books. 

Or, you could buy 20 of one book, a whole class set. 

My Gift List for Cloud Forest School book wishlist

Link:

http://smile.amazon.com/registry/giftlist/28EEALNNUHT8K

Thank you in advance if you can help out.

Rebecca

Kinder area with coffee plant in background

Liana's first report card

She loves school, is obviously intelligent, and is usually pleasant and happy but is prone to excessive hugging and touching in circle time, and sticks things in her mouth like markers and scissors.

Volunteering in the library at the CEC

Two birthday parties in one day

Maisy's second birthday and Grace's sixteenth. Liana loves birthdays.

Oh, Swanson's thrush

Dear little brown migratory bird.
You are not beautiful as a toucan nor interesting to look at as a mot mot.
You don't build hanging nests like the oropendola.
You make a sweet, little call.
You fly from Chile to North America.
You are migratory.
And your journey ends here, on a window at the Children's house at the Children's eternal rain forest in Bajo Tigre, Monteverde.
Sad little lifeless bird.
In the middle of your journey.

Project share at the Cloud Forest School today

Chocolate chocolate cookies

No school today

Liana only goes to school Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday mornings. So, today she got her dolls dressed for school, took them on the bus, and is now playing Loteria with them during circle time. They are learning to share.
And, Liana is running class time in Spanish.

Baby sloth rescue

A baby sloth was found on the ground, in heavy rain, near a hotel in Santa Elena. Benito Guindon (our dairy farmer) is taking it on for rehabilitation. It's a week old now. It will take about a year before it can be released.
Murtha and Liana we're excited to see it, as was Menna and everyone else. Menna injured her ankle playing soccer Saturday and is headed to San Jose today to get an x-Ray.